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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1896
Page
6
Society notes report a wedding at Mrs Margaret Johnson’s Quincy home yesterday. The event drew local social interest with attendees and local figures mentioned as part of a bustling wedding page.
A long-winded ad reads as a tobacco cessation pitch claiming a Louisianian was forced to smoke a pound weekly for sixteen years, saved by No-To-Bac after claiming to have used twenty-one tablets for a complete cure in sixteen days. The piece shifts to wedding notes and social club updates, detailing a Brooklyn bridegroom Mr. Wiggin and Mrs. Willitts, with ceremony decor, reception, and train departure details alongside multiple society notices from Topeka and Philadelphia.
Mrs Charles Blood Smith and twenty other Topeka ladies serve as patronesses for a library hall lecture by Mabel Jenness Venter Saturday afternoon. Venter promotes phrascal culture in daily life with flattering notices. Boston Globe salutes her attire and gown. Ushers include Misses Alice Atwood Florence Stewart Alene Church Ide Stagg Flora Mayo May Lange Hattie May Clarke.
A dated note describes sequins embroidery as a fast effective craft ideal for school projects. It highlights sequin and bead combinations for jewel like ornamentation and notes English magazines devote space to this topic for hobbyists, dressmakers, and milliners.
The description explains using overlapping sequins to create a bow motif adapted from an old French design. It outlines stitching from wrong to right side, placing sequins along the outline, and forming the center with a large sequin and a small one on top, with a gilt bend. The bow shown is on white satin with tiny gilt sequins.
Neat laundry brag describes a denim laundry bag shaped yard by three quarters yard, outlined in dark brown stitches with two strings for hanging. Prairie Palmer signs the illustration. G D Olden will debate Col John Brown at Hamilton ball Friday night. ten cents covers expenses. The Mikado charity performance under Ingleside ladies set for February 11 and 12.
The thirteenth annual State Bar association of Kansas meets in the senate chamber with about forty members present. Chief Justice Martian attends, H L Alden presides, and discussion centers on calling a constitutional convention. Judges Wall Nicholson Garver and Roberta argue for and against postponement while calls persist for action. The afternoon features Alden’s address and papers by Dawes Smith and others, with tomorrow highlighting further talks and officer elections.
North Topeka items record visitors from Meriden Abilene and Wichita. Local society details include church meetings grand jury members rainfall drought notes and a pigeon club president praising profits from hobby keeping 110 birds and prize winnings at a poultry show.
Mrs Daniel Nevels woke to two colored boys with revolvers entering her home at about ten last night on 127 North Van Buren Street. They chased her out, rifled a bureau, and took 350 dollars. Charles Hawkins, an 18 year old colored youth, was arrested and identified by Nevels, then turned over to the state for further action.
A jumbled OCR style grocery list mentions Van Houien cocoa mix corn starch several brands and sizes of ketchup rice sago Boston baked beans tomato sauce white fish coffee baking staples and pancake flour. The imperfect text reads like a shopper’s ledger with multiple items and quantities.
A truncated ad lists meats and lard items including California hams per pound sugar cured ham per pound breakfast bacon white lard in 6, 10, and 11 pound cans boneless ham and cooked ham options.
Fragmented OCR lists various soap brands and box pricing hints including Birk Lenox Soap Fairbanks brown Sony Butter Milk Soap Cocoanut Oil Soap White Russian and Bile Sapper Box, with per box annotations and unclear quantities or context.
Readable list shows prices and items in a dairy or market column including Fancy Citron Fancy Orange Le Slbs Pined Plum Bibs Pears 6 lbs Whal 5 lbs Whal Peach Chanped corranta Site Apples Grapes 6 iba. The fragment notes assorted dried fruits and fresh fruits with weight notions and branding mixed.
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